Securing the Cities Improvement Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
Amends the Homeland Security Act to improve the Securing the Cities program for nuclear and radiological threat detection through revised jurisdiction criteria, performance metrics, and reporting requirements.
Who Benefits and How
Participating jurisdictions and homeland security agencies could gain a more capability- and threat-focused structure for detecting and responding to nuclear or radiological threats in urban areas.
Who Bears the Burden and How
DHS must establish metrics, monitor performance and expenditures, and report to Congress, creating additional program-management and oversight obligations.
Key Provisions
- Updates the criteria for selecting Securing the Cities jurisdictions.
- Shifts the program toward capability, threat, vulnerability, and consequence-based measures.
- Requires performance metrics, milestones, and expenditure monitoring.
- Requires reporting to Congress on program implementation and effectiveness.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Amends the Homeland Security Act to improve the Securing the Cities program for nuclear and radiological threat detection through revised jurisdiction criteria, performance metrics, and reporting requirements.
Key Policy Areas
Homeland Security, Nuclear Security, Terrorism Prevention
Primary Purpose
Amends the Homeland Security Act to improve the Securing the Cities program for nuclear and radiological threat detection through revised jurisdiction criteria, performance metrics, and reporting requirements.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Jurisdictions participating in nuclear and radiological threat detection and the agencies overseeing those capabilities
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- DHS administrators responsible for added performance tracking and oversight
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseReceived; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland …
Passed House (inferred from eh version)
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill …
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate …
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1056-1057)
Mr. Green (TN) moved to suspend the rules and pass …
Mr. Carter of Louisiana (for himself, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, …
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